History and Definition of Music

The music and the art of combining the sounds according to the variation in height providing his second term and ordered by the law of estética.A the music is present and our daily lives as we sing, drum, turn on the radio or TV, etc.The music and a way to express your feelings e considered a universal language.

Believed that music came to 50,000 years by groups or tribes in Africa and was spreading through the expansion of the human race from the planet. The music, to be produced and / or reproduced, is directly influenced by local economic and sociocultural organization.

In prehistoric times humans have produced a form of music that it was essential, because their cultural production consists of tools for use in day to day, it was not enough, it was the art that the human being found fertile ground for project their desires, fears, and other sensations that fled the reason. Different archaeological, paintings, prints and sculptures, feature images of musicians, instruments and dancers in action, however it is not known how these musical instruments were produced.

The great civilizations of the ancient world, were no traces of the existence of musical instruments in different forms of documents. The Sumerians, who were the pinnacle of their crop in the basin Mesopotamia thousands of years before Christ, used in its liturgy, hymns and songs chanted by influencing the cultures of Babylon, Chaldean, and Jewish, who later settled in the region.

Egyptian culture, around 4000 BC, reached a high level of musical expression, it was a territory that preserved agriculture and this led to religious custom, where people were beating species disks and sticks against each other, used harps, percussion, various types of flutes and also sang. The priests trained choirs for sacred rituals in the major temples. It was customary military use of trumpets and drums in the official ceremonies.